Finding your purpose

Finding your purpose could be the difference between living a fulfilling life or a wasted life. If you don't feel fulfilled by or happy with your life, you may decide to evaluate your life’s purpose. While this can be a challenging self-examination that may lead you to believe that you’ve been living life the “wrong way,” take heart; it’s never too late to begin living the life that you want to live—a life that is meaningful and happy. Find your life’s purpose, then take action to implement the kind of life you really want to live.

Sometimes it feels that our culture has nearly reached a saturation point in its focus on the pursuit of happiness: thousands of books, blogs, and websites purport to help us get there, with techniques ranging from the empirically validated (exercise, mindfulness, gratitude) to the rather murky (which often involve paying someone something.) But more and more research is starting to delineate between happiness in terms of pleasure, versus happiness in terms of a sense of purpose and meaning. The former often focuses on hedonic experiences: "happiness" in the two-dimensional sense, feeling joy or pleasure that can be fleeting but undeniably feels positive in the moment. Of course, sometimes we search for this pleasure in ways that ultimately make us feel worse: impulsive spending, irresponsible sexual interactions, unhealthy food choices or substance abuse. The latter research focus, however, looks more at experiences that might not be purely pleasurable but increase our sense of connectedness to deeper values. These activities and connections may not always be easy, but they feel to us like reasons for living. Such experiences often involve a greater satisfaction with one's life on a deeper level, and may just be more valuable than superficial "happiness" when it comes to overall emotional well-being and also physical health.

What's trickier, though, is actually cultivating a sense of purpose. How do you find meaning in a world that offers no shortage of stress, in a life that can all too easily be filled with the worries of getting through the responsibilities of the day? Unfortunately, it seems that many Americans are indeed struggling to connect with that deeper sense of meaning (and we're not doing so great in the happiness measures either).

If you want to begin to think more deeply about these issues, there are some simple questions you can start with. How might you find your sense of meaning? After answering these simple questions inside this amazing guide you will know what your purpose in life is. Finding your purpose will never be hard again….Enjoy!

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